Big Mac wrote:Would it be possible to do anything with this sort of campaign...other than have it descend into warfare?

You could have Odin (or some similar god) send the Vikings on a quest. With just a single longship of Vikings, they would recognize that they'd quickly be defeated, and would instead work with the Zakharans.

I think there is a culture in the northern parts of the Moonshae Isles called Illuskan or Northlanders which are basically Vikings or Medieval Scandinavians. I think they may fit what you are looking for.

In our real world, contact between Scandinavia and the Middle East predate the Viking Age by several centuries, but before the Longship technology, such contact was most likely limited to trade with intermediaries. The Longship technology and sophisticated navigation techniques allowed the Vikings to traverse the North Sea and explore distant realms like North America and the Middle East.

I think there is a culture in the northern parts of the Moonshae Isles called Illuskan or Northlanders which are basically Vikings or Medieval Scandinavians. I think they may fit what you are looking for.

There is a Viking longship in Hawa in the box Corsairs of the Great Sea. The captain's name is Rolf Trygveson, a human male level 8 figher from Icewind Dale. From the description, and from the fact that he's from Icewind Dale, he does sound like an Illuskan to me.

Rolf's ship is called the Raven and he and his fellow Illuskan crew founded a village called the Ravenwing. They've married into Zakharan families.

There is also a Spelljammer dragonship in Hawa ♥
The captain is also from a distant part of al-Toril, he's from Hai Yuan. He has returned to al-Toril (or as outworlders call it, Toril) after a stint in space.